eh, i would have absolutely no problem stealing $.01 worth of coke from mcdonalds, given my ongoing business relationship with them.

I almost always get 2 uses out of a tea bag. It is more of a lazy thing that it is easier to reuse one already in a cup than to throw it out and get a new one out, and the fact that I don't notice a huge decrease in taste. Obviously this is all within a 30-45 minute time period. If I only use it once, and am done with tea for that sitting, I don't save it and use it again tomorrow or something.

Had a friend a year younger than I was growing up, so I got my license and car before her. I used to drive her everywhere. I would pick her up and drop her off places I wasn't even going, as well as doing all of the driving when we were going somewhere together, of course.

She gets her license, and the first time she drives us somewhere (literally to the mall in the same town we lived in) she asks for gas money. Gas money after I drove her all around for a year without ever asking for a dime.

My parents made me walk back and forth to grab free giveaways like tissue paper or toothpaste.

im about 16 or 17 and working for some asians in a wherehouse
i had to be 18 to work there legally so they had to pay me cash
so my first paycheck comes to $178.xx
they hand me $180 in twenties and ask me for the change

lol

MSpaint of the Asian wherehouse needed immediately ITT. Paging kkcountry.

I definitely read this as whorehouse

me too

We used to collect $5 from everyone at our home game to order pizza. One guy asked if we could order a couple of subs as well "for variety". When the food arrived he quietly took an entire sub, rewrapped it and took it out to his car. Someone asked WTF? and he said that he was taking it home since he didn't eat after 9pm and he contributed to the food pool. Even though it was a $9 sub we let it go until he did it the next 2 games.

People with a sense of ethics?

Not that this is some great crime, but I don't really think youth excuses it at all.

A guy I worked with would find buy one get one free coupons. He would expect you to buy one and him get one free. He didn't think anything at all was wrong with it when he was called out on it.

There's a guy that comes around the parking lot picking up used cigarette butts because he says he can't afford to buy smokes. That's not really being cheap just broke.

I shall contribute...

My best friend seems to have lots of money.

Whenever he sees homeless people begging for money, he gives them all the cash he currently has on him.

He bought a new Audi A4 which he drove for about a year until his sister needed a "nice safe car" to go to college with. So he paid off his Audi then gave it to her at no cost.

Whenever we go out he always offers to buy me and my friends drinks. Always asks, "hey do ya need another one?"

Despite these examples, he'll still drive around looking for the cheapest gas station. I was in the car with him when he said he needed gas. He proceeded to pass like 3 gas stations to go to the Petro station which has the cheapest gas (by like .03/gallon). I said wtf dude its like pennies!!!?!?!? He says, "it all adds up man."

I look down on those sort of things far more than I would on serious crimes. Petty stuff like this leaves me with absolutely zero respect for the person in question and I can never take them seriously ever again. I couldn't think less of someone that I witnessed doing these things. I see them as worthless *******s who are always looking for an edge who wish they could just go around robbing people but are afraid of being caught, so they express their desire to be criminals through actions that at worst are minimally punishable offenses that net them a twofold gain: more for less, and feeling like they suckered someone.

Is that ethics? I guess I don't even know what ethics are, since I see them as pretty open ended. I can tell you that I'd be far more likely to rob a bank than sneak into a movie, though. I'd sooner steal a car to use in a drive by than try to steal some gum from a market. I'd sooner blow up a building than try to cheat in a home game. The little things are more wrong than the big ones because they just irritate the hell out of everyone around you and ensure that you're the last one saved from the burning building.

Im pretty sure I would cheat before blowing up a building

This is ****ed up.

This is a pretty fine nit to pick, but that strikes me as cheap/frugal, not stingy. One can be generous and still be strangely frugal in small ways. To me, "stingy" implies a meanness, and a touch of getting something for less at the expense of someone else, vs just getting something for less.

There have been other examples of that in this thread too.

Yeah, murderers are always the first saved from the burning building ******.

You're an idiot. Or possibly a sociopath.

He helps friends and family and homeless strangers in fact with no thought of cost but will save pennies rather than donate them to the profit margins of faceless corporations.

Honestly he just sounds like a great guy and not cheap or frugal at all.

Maybe he was leveling

O.o

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A friend of mine in highschool used to search the web for pizza hut coupons (pre-google and GIS), then photoshop them (this is back in the 90's when most people didn't know what photoshop was) to say absurd things like 3 for 1 or free breadsticks and stuff like that.

He never had a problem getting them accepted and we always had plenty of pizza at parties.

I would never do something like that now...